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She should read my book, I insisted, offering it to her enthusiastically. Lord Henry philosophically had earlier said to him that: Definitely will pick this up over the summer. Hallward felt strangely moved. Gray unwittingly makes a Faustian pact whereby his own youthful beauty remains unblemished, while a portrait he hides in an attic shows the ravages visited on his face and body by his ugly character. I hardly understood it myself. Jess, I was so naive in ; I had no idea how much the book meant to you until far after we closed its pages.

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Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” Gets Uncensored and Totally Gay

Order by newest oldest recommendations. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander. But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret. Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke. Jess Jess is a pop culture junkie living in New York City. Basil Hallward to Lord Henry talking about Dorianmagazine edition and original typescript:

She confirms that the man was Dorian Gray and explains that he has not aged in 18 years. This one is interesting, because it gives Dorian a voice where he had none—he gets to interject into his own drubbing for a minute. It is quite true I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man should ever give to a friend. Log in to Reply. I highly doubt it will be read in high schools, unfortunately. I give myself away.